Attaching buttons to garments.



No. 642,895. Patented Feb. 6, I900. G. J. BURNS.

ATTAGHING BUTTONS TOGABMENTS.

(Application flied Dec. 31, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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Nrren STATES PATENT Genres.

GEORGE J. BURNS, OF AYER, MASSACHUSETTS.

ATTACHING BUTTONS TO GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,895, dated February 6, 1900.

Application filed December 31, 189?. Serial No. 665,074. (No model.)

T0 to whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. BURNS, of Ayer, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Attaching Buttons to Garments, of which the following is a specification.

lhe invention has relation to an improved method of attaching buttons to waists and similar garments; and it consists in the novel features of construction and arrangement which will be hereinafter described and claimed, with the aid of the drawings which accompany and form a part of the application.

I-Ieretofore buttons which support any considerable weight of attached clothing have commonly been aflixed to garments of the character mentioned by means of a continuous tape or cord, uponwhich the buttons are strung at intervals and which is attached either to the face or back of the fabric. When attached to the face of the fabric, the tape is usually arranged to have a series of loops or offsets on which the buttons are located, the tape being stitched to the fabric between these loops and a final facing-strip being stitched over the tape, so as to cover the intermediate portions thereof. When the tape is attached to the back of the fabric, the loops usually pass through eyelets or project be tween the abutting edges of two adjacent facing-strips. I propose by means of the present invention to dispense with the objectionable feature of loose or hanging loops and to substitute a method of attaching buttons which will give each button an independent attaching tape or cord and will enable the buttons to be brought up close to the face of the garment, the improved method of fastening giving also added strength and convenience of repair.

Of the drawings, Figure 1 represents a face view of one of the diamond-shaped pieces of cloth on a childs waist, to which buttons are attached in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 represents a reverse view of the same. Fig. 3 represents a sectional view showing the method of attachment of a button. Fig. 4

represents a perspective View of a modification illustrating the use of my invention in connection with an independent button-strip.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

Referring for the present to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, a designates the diamondshaped foundation-piece of fabric or material to which the buttons are attached. I) b designate the buttons, which are strung on independent loops or pieces 0 of cord or lacing, passing through apertures in the fabric, the

apertures being provided with metallic eyeand a neat appearance is presented. A second row of stitching, which is required to fasten the pieces a to the main garment, also passes transversely across the ends of the loops and gives extra security to the latter.

It will be noted that although the buttons are brought up close to the face of the fabric there is no difficulty in obtaining a good finger-hold on them, for to do this it is merely necessary to slide the fabric back a distance to expose the desired amount of cord. Nor mally, however, the buttons lie fiat and will pass through a clothes-wringer as easily as the ordinary sewed button.

If a cord or button breaks, the matter of repair is a very easy one, as it is only necessary to rip the seam at the place where that particularcord is secured and insert a new one, fastening it in the same manner as before.

An important feature of my invention is that the cord lies in the general direction of the strain or pull upon the buttons and is se curely anchored at its ends. This is notthe case with the ordinary tape-button. The tape almost invariably runs transversely to the direction of the strain and is either easily pulled away from its fastenings or is so arranged that the strain is borne largely by the eyelets or edges of the apertures in the fabric, with a resulting tendency to enlarge the apertures.

In Fig. at I have shown my invention embodied in an independent button-strip, which is first made complete with the buttons and is afterward attached to the main body of the garment. e is a main foundation-strip, and f is a reinforcing and finishing strip, which is attached to the stripe after the buttons 1), which are strung on individual loops 0, passing through eyelets in the strip 6, have been put in place on the latter. The strips 6 f are sewed together by an outer longitudinal line of stitching e and an inner longitudinal line e the latter passing transversely across the ends of the loop 0 and securing the latter to the fabric. efare thus united, the button-strip as a whole is complete. To attach it to the main body of agarment, the edge of the main body-piece g of the garment is inserted between the inner edges of the strips ef, which have been left disunited as far as the row of stitching e and then a row of stitching e is passed through the strip 6, the body-piece g, and the strip f. This second inner row of stitching unites the button-strip firmly to the body of the garment, and as it also passes across the ends of the button-loops c it gives the latter extra security and attaches them directly to the body of the garment as well as to the button-strip. It will be observed that in this embodiment of my invention, as well as in that previously described,the attaching-loops WVhen the two component strips 0 lie in the general direction of the strain or pull upon the buttons.

I have shown two Ways of applying my invention to garments, but there are of course numerous other modifications in the method of attaching the buttons, which come within the scope of my invention and which will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains.

I claim A button-piece for garments comprising the fabric formed with an opening or perforation, a looped cord or tape having its bight projectin g through said openingand provided thereat with a button, said cord lying substantially entirely at the back of the fabric, so as to normally draw the button fiat against the face thereof, and stitching, passing through the fabric and cord transversely across the ends of the latter, said stitching being applied at a substantial distance from the button, so as to leave a free neck of cord which may be drawn out by pressing back the fabric.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses,this 29th day of December, A. D. 1897.

GEORGE J. BURNS.

lVitnesses:

R. M. PIERSON, 0. F. BRowN. 

